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Is it possible to confirm a person's name without a creditcard number?

Looking for a way to confirm user supplied names without asking for a creditcard number. Requirements: Method must be automated, and not require manual processing, Work 80% of the time or more. Be "free" Not require personally identifiable…
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Static home page vs latest posts for SEO

Which is better from an SEO perspective: a static well-optimized homepage for the primary keyword (say, primary-keyword.com) of a website, or a homepage featuring the latest posts?
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private domain registration

I have seen many people hide their personal details like address and phone number while registering a domain. Sometimes they pay for this private registration. So that their information doesn't display in a whois lookup. What is the advantage of…
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How to ensure a web designer is selling you an original design

If I get the web-design done by someone else, how can I ensure he is not simply passing me some recycled work or blatantly copying/pasting somebody's (or his own) work? There really is no way to make sure, right? So how can I ask a web-designer…
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Which keyword should I use: colors or colours or a combination of both?

Well this might sound weird but yeah that's exactly what I want to know! Now as per US-English colors is the right word and as per British-English colours is the right word. Here in India we follow British English and also the local trend on Google…
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Does the SPDY protocol eliminate the need for cookieless domains?

With plain HTTP, cookieless domains are an optimization to avoid unnecessarily sending cookie headers for page resources. However, the SPDY protocol compresses HTTP headers and in some cases eliminates unnecessary headers. My question then is, does…
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Which web directories can I reliably invest in to increase my traffic and search ranking?

I've been looking around for some web directories to list my company in that would 1) Feed more traffic to my website and 2) Increase my search rankings due to being a quality referral to my own website. There are many sites out there offering these…
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Image SEO - always repeat main keyword in alt text?

I'm working on an Easter Island website and I'm currently redesigning my image system. Virtually all my photos are of Easter Island. My question is, should I always include the keywords "Easter Island" for Google to easier understand that my photos…
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Tracking logged in vs. non-logged in users on the same URL in Google Analytics

I am building a social media site that is similar is structure to twitter and facebook.com where unauthenticated users who go to https://example.com will see a login + sign-up page, and authenticated users who go to https://example.com will see…
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Are there any specific tips and tricks for optimizing a website for Bing?

Most available resources (even Bing community) promote the general principles for optimize a site in Google. My site is quite well optimized for a certain keyword combination in Google, yet in Bing it fails to even show up on 1st page. Now, I'm…
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Content theft - Where can I go from here?

I am the webmaster of a very successful blog in a fairly small niche. Recently our success has started to bite us with people copying posts on the site without consent and trying to pass them off as their own work. Most sites stop as soon as you…
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Google Analytics - how to track clicks on a screen?

Can I track the click of every link, button, dropdown select, etc. on a screen and have it be tracked in Google Analytics? I want to create a page and collect data on which widget the users use most. What about AJAX stuff? What if you're using…
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Is it safe to have no TOS or PP?

I have coded my own forums from the ground up. I have tried my best to make my code as secure as possible and encrypting everything I can. I want to use this forum for a Minecraft server. I have one concern however.... I would like to setup this…
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Fast, Cheap, Dedicated Hosting

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for dedicated hosting with at least 1GB of RAM that doesn't hurt the wallet too much. Specifically it should have goods speed around the world as…
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Does Google reward sites for using images from different domains, sub domains and CDN's?

I believe that images on the same domain can contribute to search engine rankings (mainly Google), example: http://example.com/image.jpg helps http://example.com So it is my understanding that using a images on a different domain or a (CDN)…
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